Shinseiki Evangelion Movie: Air/Magokoro wo, Kimi ni

Shinji Ikari is left emotionally comatose after the death of a dear friend. With his son mentally unable to pilot the humanoid robot Evangelion Unit-01, Gendou Ikari's NERV races against the shadow organization SEELE to see who can enact their ultimate plan first. SEELE desires to create a godlike being by fusing their own souls into an Evangelion unit, while Gendou wishes to revert all of humanity into one primordial being so that he can be reunited with Yui, his deceased wife.

SEELE unleashes its military forces in a lethal invasion of NERV headquarters. As SEELE's forces cut down NERV's scientists and security personnel, Asuka Langley Souryuu pilots Evangelion Unit-02 in a desperate last stand against SEELE's heaviest weaponry.

The battle rages on, and a depressed Shinji hides deep within NERV's headquarters. With the fate of the world resting in Shinji's hands, Captain Misato Katsuragi hunts for the teenage boy as society crumbles around them.

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Souryuu, Asuka Langley Main

Miyamura, Yuko Japanese

Ayanami, Rei Main

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Shinji Main

Ogata, Megumi Japanese

Katsuragi, Misato Main

Mitsuishi, Kotono Japanese

Nagisa, Kaworu Supporting

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Pen Pen Supporting

Hayashibara, Megumi Japanese

Ikari, Gendou Supporting

Tachiki, Fumihiko Japanese

Kaji, Ryouji Supporting

Yamadera, Kouichi Japanese

Akagi, Ritsuko Supporting

Yamaguchi, Yuriko Japanese

Ibuki, Maya Supporting

Nagasawa, Miki Japanese

Ishikawa, Mitsuhisa Producer

Anno, Hideaki Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Screenplay, Animation Director, Setting, Original Creator, Key Animation, Mechanical Design, Planning

Tsurumaki, Kazuya Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Setting

Tanaka, Hideyuki Sound Director

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Dec 8, 2025

LelouchViPolonia

Recommended

In my opinion better than the 26 episode show.

It makes every bit of Evangelion more clear and allows you to understand the portraited world way better.

After watching the show, go watch TEoE and come back to rewatch the show to understand it perfectly (or close to perfect).

The lore goes deeper, clears so many thinks out and in general makes the story more pleasant and the characters development wasier to see/view. I will definitely have to come back and rewatch the 26 episodes and I won't be like "man that's weird" anymore but more likely "damn, EoE told me so much lore that everything in this ... show makes sense".

Evangelion is a series which you need to watch in full to understand it, unlike other anime where you understand it's story, lore and plot straight away.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Dec 4, 2025

javalipelado

Mixed Feelings

ENG:

"The End of Evangelion" replaces the romanticism and positivity of the last two episodes of the series with a much angrier, more expository, and raw approach that the anime could never have imagined. Perhaps that's why there's a colossal ambition to portray Shinji as the most disgusting person ever here.

Anno seeks to maintain the thesis he defended on March 20, 1996, but here it's enhanced by a curious meta-narrative about his own audience; what stands out is a direct commentary on the public, composed of mercy but exponentially accusatory. Such curiosity was already present in the series, but less obvious and cruel.

The experimental editing and ... intimate framing of episodes 24 and 25 give way to the scatological explosion of the Third Impact. There is still room for inner reflection, of course, but the highest priority is the self-indulgent and unrestrained exhibition and use of previously more subtle symbols.

Clearly, there's a incisive return to the narrative approach, which allows for very interesting and touching sequences in both kinetic and dramatic terms (like the tragic fight with the mass-produced EVAs), but the new execution is quite bittersweet to me.

Despite everything, I consider it a divergent perspective necessary for the work of Evangelion as a whole, as it also conveys all the ambivalence of intimacy fundamental to the narrative formula and concludes the story from a plausible angle, even if so different from "The Beast that Shouted 'I' at the Heart of the World".

PT-BR:

"The End of Evangelion" substitui o romantismo e positividade dos últimos dois episódios por uma abordagem muito mais raivosa, expositiva e crua que o anime sequer poderia cogitar. Vai ver por isso a ambição colossal de portar Shinji como uma pessoa tão desprezível.

Anno busca manter a tese que defendeu em 20 de março de 1996, mas aqui ela é incrementada a uma meta-narrativa curiosa sobre sua própria audiência; o que se sobressai é um comentário direto ao público, composto por misericórdia mas exponencialmente acusador. Tal curiosidade já era presente na série, mas menos óbvia e cruel.

A montagem experimental e decupagem intimista dão lugar à explosão escatológica do Terceiro Impacto. Ainda há espaço para a reflexão interior, claro, mas a prioridade máxima é a exposição e a utilização auto-indulgente e desenfreada de símbolos antes mais sutis.

Claramente, há uma retomada do enfoque narrativo, o que permite sequências muito interessantes e tocantes no âmbito cinético e dramático (como a trágica luta com os EVAs de produção em massa), mas a nova execução me é agridoce.

Apesar de tudo, considero uma ótica divergente necessária ao conjunto total da obra, pois também transpõe toda a ambivalência da intimidade fundamental à formula de Evangelion e conclui a narrativa por um viés plausível, mesmo que tão diferente de "A Fera que Gritou "Eu" no Coração do Mundo".

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Oct 9, 2025

danseaview

Not Recommended

No idea what this was, for starters this is an ending to the series not a standalone movie.(Incase you haven't seen the series)

For any normal person looking for a quick review, whatever they started smoking at the end of the anime still hadn't worn off when they wrote this movie. There will be no real answers, or enjoyable plot, just ego stroking for the writers. (they did a real self insert at the start IYKYK)

I feel any reviewer that gave it a positive review should be required to explain the entirety of the plot, with drives, character arcs, setups and payoffs. IMO you should ... be able to summarize the fundamental lesson/focus/struggle in 1-2 sentences for a show to be good/focused. It would probably take pages to try to explain what was going on, and as a viewer I took away nothing was going on.

There's about 20 minutes of plot with the base attack which is the synopsis on MyAnimeList, there isn't any really setup/payoff to this its just a thing that happens mid-movie. The other 60 minutes are the insane ramblings of a clearly horny, look at my intellect type writer. The kind of guy you see getting swirlied and when his head finally comes out of the toilet he keeps explaining how it was actually very intellectual and deep with its themes and imagery.

The "deep intellectual" points are actually just surface level questions which they then proceed not to setup, explain, answer, or confront in any way then proceed to flash something else so you don't think about how dumb they actually sounded.

Technical Aspects
Pretty good animation - Alot of it wasted on the insanity scenes and not much in the way of scenic or establishing shots.
Voice acting - Good, some scenes feel mismatched but thats probably just down to the poor script
Plot - None existent, actually negative if you count all the stuff they just take/assume you know from the series
Music - Not bad, was a couple scenes i had my suspension of disbelief broken, laughing thinking why certain music was playing though
Character Development - None, It's like watching parody of who they were from the series
Writing/Script - Bad. They're saying words, they did indeed write down words in the script. Half is technical jargon, half is nonsensical attempts at "art". Was watching with original subtitles so I was wondering while watching if they were just struggling to translate. (that's how little there's to engage with in the movie)

Hope the writers friends checked up on the guy and got him help, then politely yet firmly told him this wasn't it.

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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